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12 As for the people of Judah, God caused them to accept the command that the king and his officers had given. They all agreed together to do what the Lord wanted them to do.[a]

13 In the second month of the year, a very large crowd of people came together in Jerusalem. They came there for the Festival of Flat Bread.[b] 14 They removed the altars for false gods that were in Jerusalem. They also removed all the altars where people burned incense. They threw them into the Kidron Valley.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:12 The tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, Zebulun and Asher belonged to the kingdom of Israel in the north. The people of the kingdom of Judah were more ready to do what King Hezekiah commanded.
  2. 30:13 The Passover feast came at the end of the festival of Flat Bread. During the seven days they ate bread which had no yeast in it.